Made by Bootham School, York, this film features snippets from the Natural History Club, which involved students bird trapping and ringing. Title -Bird trapping & Ringing. Title - Bootham School Natural History Club. The film opens within the Bootham grounds and a student places some bread into a metal cage. The student then goes to another slightly larger cage and props the door open with a wooden pole attached to some string. Now in the snow, students stand around a set of birds nest...

Made by Bootham School, York, this film features snippets from the Natural History Club, which involved students bird trapping and ringing. Title -Bird trapping & Ringing. Title - Bootham School Natural History Club. The film opens within the Bootham grounds and a student places some bread into a metal cage. The student then goes to another slightly larger cage and props the door open with a wooden pole attached to some string. Now in the snow, students stand around a set of birds nest and the boys take a bird from the cage and place it in a canvas bag, before walking back to the school building. An elevated view shows an expanse of green and a large bird cage erected in the foreground. Students then exit a car and enter the bird cage, beating the shrubbery with sticks. Exiting the cage, they move over to a small bird house positioned outside the cage and the boy takes a bird and holds it up for the camera. Metal rings are then captured using a close up, before several tools used in the ringing operation are presented. A student then pulls a bird from a canvas bag and holds him steady for the camera. He uses a pair of pliers to tighten the ring around the bird's leg. Outside the school building the student sets the bird free.